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Airwallex Focuses on Agentic Commerce as Valuation Hits $11 Billion
June 25, 2026

Business payments and financial platform Airwallex has raised $320 million in new funding. This Series H round brings Airwallex’s valuation to $11 billion, and will help it develop autonomous finance and agentic commerce and extend its infrastructure and regulatory presence into new markets, the company...

IPO
Kalshi Chief Says IPO Won’t Happen This Year
June 24, 2026

Kalshi’s CEO has confirmed the company wants to go public, though not right away. Tarek Mansour said in a CNBC interview Wednesday (June 24) that the prediction market is in the early stages of planning an initial public offering (IPO). He added the listing won’t happen this...

Investments
Taktile Raises $110 Million to Automate High-Stakes Banking and Insurance Decisions
June 24, 2026

Taktile raised $110 million in a Series C funding round to further enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for complex banking and insurance use cases and to expand its global footprint. The company’s modular Agentic Decision Platform enables banks and insurers to combine AI agents, rules, relevant...

IPO
Egyptian Digital Bank MNT-Halan Plans to Go Public
June 24, 2026

Egypt-based FinTech MNT-Halan is reportedly planning to take its business public in Cairo. The initial public offering (IPO) could happen as soon as this year, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (June 24), citing sources familiar with the matter. Those sources said MNT-Halan is working with Citigroup...

Investments
Allium Raises $40 Million to Help Enterprises Embrace the Blockchain
June 23, 2026

Enterprise-focused blockchain data platform Allium has raised $40 million in new funding. The company announced its Series B round Tuesday (June 23), noting that it comes at a time when global finance is rapidly moving to blockchain rails, with $302 billion in stablecoins, $394 billion...

Fintech Investments
Revolut’s South Africa Waitlist Nears 100K 2 Years Before Launch
June 22, 2026

Revolut’s expansion plans now reportedly include South Africa as interest there in the FinTech grows. The British company plans to launch in Africa’s largest economy by 2028, an official told Bloomberg News in an interview published Monday (June 22). “We are already seeing exceptional demand...

Investments
Upscale Raises $190 Million for AI Networking Tech
June 22, 2026

Artificial intelligence networking infrastructure company Upscale AI has raised $190 million in new funding. The startup’s Series A-1 round, announced Monday (June 22), brings Upscale’s valuation to $2 billion and will help it accelerate delivery of its networking technology. In its announcement, the company said the funding round is...

Investments
Prosper AI Raises $30 Million to Automate the Patient Journey
June 22, 2026

Prosper AI raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to grow its healthcare AI platform, according to a Monday (June 22) press release. The New York-based company has built an AI platform that handles patient scheduling, insurance verification and billing...

IPO
Prediction Market Kalshi Eyes IPO as Revenue Triples to $2 Billion
June 19, 2026

Kalshi has about tripled its annualized revenue since November, bringing that figure to $2 billion, The Information reported Thursday (June 18), citing unnamed sources. The report attributed the prediction markets platform’s gains to trading around the NBA and World Cup games. This growth has led...